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Join us on Thursday March 28th from 6pm-8pm to launch our first art exhibit of 2024. A gathering of works by area artists that encompass a range of subject and medium.
Showing in the gallery:
Jacqui Abend
Colleen Antonucci
Steve Beal
Joe Brown
Lauren Curtis
Amanda Mathews
Dave McGrath
Nick Rosal
Ken Witkowski
Join us for this city wide celebration of student works! Atelier Rosal is honored to be a part of this event organized by The national Council of Negro Women of Rahway.
As an advocate of all arts, it is inspiring that the City of Rahway, Rahway's schools and local organizations have come together to encourage and develop young, creative minds.
The exhibit of student work will be up for display from Friday< February 17th through Friday, March 3rd.
There will be receptions at the following locations featuring artist panels and speakers:
Opening Ceremony/ Reception:
Date: Friday, February 17th
Time: 6PM to 9PM
Location: YMCA Rahway Branch, 1564 Irving St
Commentary: 7PM
Opening Ceremony/ Reception:
Date: Saturday, February 18th
Time: 5PM to 7PM
Location: Atelier Rosal, 74 E Cherry St
Closing Ceremony/Reception:
Date: Friday, March 3rd
Time: 6PM to 9PM
Location: Senior Center 1306 Esterbrook Ave
Please go to www.CityOfRahway.com/Creates for additional exhibit locations!
Join us on Saturday, December 17th from 5pm-8pm for some holiday cheer! Refreshments will be served!
Sponsored by the Rahway Chamber of Commerce and the Rahway Special Improvement District, Small Business Saturday in Rahway is a great opportunity to Shop Small for the Holiday Season. Visit us to see our expanded gift selection, have a sneak peek of our Small Works show and check out our custom framing designs. There will be giveaways and raffles at Atelier Rosal as well as other shops throughout the city.
CALL TO ARTISTS
Atelier Rosal (74 East Cherry St., Rahway, NJ) is now accepting submissions for our annual Small Works/Affordable Art Show.
All works must be framed and ready to hang. Works must not exceed 12"x16" framed (we're flexible on that). Pricing of works should not exceed $200 retail. The gallery takes a 40% commission.
The Small Works/Affordable Art Show will exhibit from November 12th through January 14th with the Artist Reception being held on Small Business Saturday, November 26th from 5-8pm. A second event, our annual Holiday Party/Anniversary Party will be held December 17th from 6-9pm. Art will be for sale online as well as in the gallery.
Please send a link to the work you are submitting to: submissions@atelierrosal.com with "Small Works 2022" in the subject line. Deadline for submissions is November 1st.
Drop off date of works, if accepted, is Wednesday November 2nd to Saturday November 5th between the hours of 11-6pm and Tuesday November 8th by appointment. Pick up of unsold works will be Tuesday, January 17th by appointment and Wednesday, January 18th through Saturday, January 21st from 11am-6pm.
Please contact Heidi@atelierrosal with questions
“Titmouse” Original work by Oscar Peterson
“Titmouse” original work by Oscar Peterson
CALL TO ARTISTS: Figuration
July 22 – September 2, 2022
Opening Reception: TBD
Deadline for submission: Midnight, Sunday July 10th, 2002
Atelier Rosal
74 East Cherry St
Rahway, NJ 07065
“It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.” - Henri Matisse
“The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.” - Henry Moore
The human figure. It is often exalted or shamed by the general audience. Yet, it is the foundation for learning form, texture, ratio and more. It is what we see the most of and engage with. Countless narratives about the human condition using the human form have been represented in photography, sculpture and paint; from the cave paintings of Lascaux to the Creation of Man on the Sistine Chapel to Banksy’s Flower Thrower.
Atelier Rosal invites artists to exhibit their figure paintings, photography, drawings (2-D works) etc. to share their own narrative. Works must not exceed 30”x40”.
An opening reception will be determined at a later date.
Please send links of samples to submissions@atelierrosal.com with “Figuration” in the subject line. Include retail price, title, size and medium on substrate
CALL TO ARTISTS: LGBTQ: Say It!
May 28th - July 9th
Opening Reception: June 3rd 6pm-9pm
Deadline for submission: Midnight, Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
Accepted entries are to be dropped off from May 24th through May 26th from 11-6pm
Atelier Rosal
74 East Cherry St
Rahway, NJ 07065
848-236-5027
Atelier Rosal invites you to speak your mind and tell your story with your art!
The exhibit will be an open, safe dialogue by, for and about the LGBTQ community. Artists are invited to share broad cultural, political, social and personal anecdotes through paintings on canvas, photography and works on paper. All narratives are acceptable, from the challenges on an individual and societal level with hate crimes and current anti LGBTQ legislation to the embracement of gender expression and strength of the LGBTQ community.
Two dimensional works will be reviewed and must not exceed 36”x36” framed. All work must be framed appropriately, wired and ready to hang.
The opening reception will be June 3rd from 6pm-9pm as well as an additional event on June 23rd, from 6pm-9pm featuring LGBTQ organization leaders.
Please send links of samples to submissions@atelierrosal.com with “LGBTQ:Say It!” in the subject line. Include retail price, title, size and medium on substrate. For questions, please email heidi@atelierrosal.com.
Free Open mic sign up by 6:30
Hosted by: Big Mike & Nourish Cruz & Chris Cook
Sponsored by: ACP Arts, Atelier Rosal & The Rahway Arts & Business District.
Doors open at 6pm- Open Mic Sign up before 6:30.
“Just be yourself”. How many times have you heard this? In a day and technological age of social platforms, people create a new persona or hide behind the veil of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube etc. We no longer see each other face to face and read the subtle tactile cues we give each other to legitimately know who is standing in front of us. Just as curiously, how are our selves perceived?
Artists in “Identity” offer a different kind of veil. Either through portraiture or non-representational imagery, we look into the art to see the artist. The exhibit’s question is broad: “Who am I?” “Who are you?” “What is the essence of this thing or person?”
On Saturday, February 22nd from 5-8pm, Atelier Rosal will have an artist reception for artists answering these questions with their imagery.
The artists exhibiting are:
Pedro Da Paz
Malcolm King
Kerry Kolenut
RBKosinski
Debra F. Livingston
Nicholas Rosal
Frank Silva
The exhibit will run from February 22nd through March 1st.
Free Open mic sign up by 6:30
Hosted by: Big Mike & Nourish Cruz & Chris Cook
Sponsored by: ACP Arts, Atelier Rosal & The Rahway Arts & Business District.
Featured Poet Helena D. Lewis - Poet::Actress::Playwright::Social Worker
Doors open at 6pm- Open Mic Sign up before 6:30.
Atelier Rosal is pleased to present “Indelible Journey” curated by Trish Classe Gianakis. A group exhibition, featuring works by cancer survivors Marion Behr, Trish Classe Gianakis, Margaret Cohen and Julie Harris. The works will be on display from October 12, 2019 through November 16, 2019 with a poetry reading to augment the event on November 9th. The exhibition seeks to create a visual dialogue from the artists’ experiences of survival and hope as well as express not only their own resilience and strength, but of those that supported them in the form of family and close friends. Art has long been used in healing and recovery to create communities, raise awareness and enhance treatment options. It is an everlasting bond. Ms. Classe Gianakis has drawn on her own journey to curate this collection of works seeking to share with the viewer the personal story of each survivor.
An artist reception will be held Saturday, October 12, 2019 from 5pm-8pm at the gallery,
Free Open mic
Hosted by: Big Mike & Nourish Cruz & Chris Cook
Sponsored by: ACP Arts, Atelier Rosal & The Rahway Arts & Business District.
New Jeru open Slam
Open Mic Sign up before 6:30.
Free Open mic
Hosted by: Big Mike & Nourish Cruz
Sponsored by: ACP Arts & The Rahway Arts & Business District.
Featuring: The Brooklyn Slam Team.
Open Mic Sign up before 6:30.
Works by locals artists, jewelers and ceramicists will be on view and are available for purchase.
Celebrate with us at Atelier Rosal from 3-6pm at the artist reception!
The exhibit will continue from June 8th till July 20th
Check out our ongoing poetry series hosted by Big Mike and Nourish. Every first Saturday of the month we welcome open mic poetry and either a featured poet or a slam. Come to participate or to support our local poetry community
Singer/Songwriters gather in the gallery and perform their songs and talk about their process and inspirations!
Hosted by singer/songwriter Rick Barth.
Scheduled to perform:
Jeiris Cook
I Am Curbie
Beth Sherby
Josette
Check out our ongoing poetry series hosted by Big Mike and Nourish. Every first Saturday of the month we welcome open mic poetry and either a featured poet or a slam. Come to participate or to support our local poetry community
The amazing Mahogany L. Browne is coming to Rahway May 4th for this month’s What’s the Word on Cherry St!
https://mobrowne.com
Workshop:
We think of poems as a means of expression, but poems can also be a way to ask questions. They can help us investigate things we don’t understand.
Atelier Rosal—a gallery, performance venue, and frame shop at 74 E. Cherry St., Rahway, NJ —is very excited to invite you to a two-hour community workshop with poet Patrick Rosal, where you’ll have the opportunity to generate some of your own writing based on the work of Aracelis Girmay, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, and Willie Perdomo. All levels are invited to a limited number of seats in the workshop. If you would like to participate in the workshop, please RSVP to rosalwriting@gmail.com to reserve a space. We are happy to offer this workshop with a nationally known artist for a nominal sliding-scale fee—$5 to $25.
After the workshop, Atelier Rosal will hold an open mic, and Willie Perdomo — nationally acclaimed author hailing from East Harlem (aka El Barrio), New York — will read from his new book, The Crazy Bunch. Poet, professor, and publisher Roberto Carlos Garcia will introduce Mr. Perdomo.
Workshop begins promptly at 4:00 pm. Open mic and reading begin at 6:00 pm. Wine and cheese reception to follow.
Artists:
WILLIE PERDOMO is the author of The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Poets, 2019) The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Poets, 2014), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the International Latino Book Award; Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax, 2004), winner of the PEN Open Book Award, and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (Norton, 1996), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, Poetry, Bomb Magazine, and African Voices. He is currently a Lucas Arts Program Literary Fellow and teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy.
PATRICK ROSAL is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Brooklyn Antediluvian, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets . Rosal’s other three books are Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, a winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, winner of the Asian American Writers Workshop Members’ Choice Award. The recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Research Program, Rosal has taught at Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Texas, Austin, Bloomfield College, in addition to Kundiman’s summer writing retreat, carceral facilities in Chicago and Alabama, and youth programs throughout the country. He is an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden.
Poet, storyteller, and essayist ROBERTO CARLOS GARCIA is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is rigorously interrogative of himself and the world around him, conveying “nakedness of emotion, intent, and experience,” and he writes extensively about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-diasporic experience. His second poetry collection, black / Maybe, is available from Willow Books. Roberto’s first collection, Melancolía, is available from Červená Barva Press. His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Bettering American Poetry, The Root, Those People, Rigorous, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Gawker, Barrelhouse, The Acentos Review, Lunch Ticket, and many others. He is founder of the cooperative press Get Fresh Books, LLC. A native New Yorker, Roberto holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Join dōTERRA Wellness Advocates Stacy & Seth Newfeld for this free informative session about how essential oils can improve your health & well being, reduce the toxic load in your home & support the environment locally & globally. Not all essential oils are safe & effective. Learn how Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade essentials oils are the safest and the only ones we should reach for.
Atelier Rosal celebrates all forms of the arts with events in and around the gallery. From poetry readings, to live music to film events, we recognize the creative spirit.
Atelier Rosal is exhibiting images that celebrate the visual artists’ creative brethren. Portraits of musicians, dancers, literary figures or any artist who are either public figures or are our personal heroes are the images that will adorn the gallery walls.
Augmenting the exhibit will be an Artist reception on April 13th, a poetry reading on April 27th and “The Performers:About Songs” on May 11th.
Check out our ongoing poetry series hosted by Big Mike and Nourish. Every first Saturday of the month we welcome open mic poetry and either a featured poet or a slam. Come to participate or to support our local poetry community
Check out our ongoing poetry series hosted by Big Mike and Nourish. Every first Saturday of the month we welcome open mic poetry and either a featured poet or a slam. Come to participate or to support our local poetry community
Next event Saturday March 2 @ 6pm-Featuring poet Rob Hylton and an open mic.
Featuring Works by Robert Ascencio, Rodriguez Calero, Nicholas Rosal, Tino Cook, Mark Rosal,
Artist Reception February 16
Poetry Reading Hosted & Curated by Patrick Rosal, Saturday March 30th from 5pm-8pm
